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yacht

[yot] / jɒt /


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It was Cecil Wright that brought the yacht to Storonsky’s attention and introduced the Revolut co-founder and Dovigi, the broker says.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

Cecil Wright & Partners, a luxury yacht broker, filed the legal action in London’s High Court over Storonsky’s acquisition of Nixie, a 102-meter vessel with four terraces and an Indian teak deck.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

Coast Guard tracked Fischer to his yacht and took him into custody off the coast of New Jersey.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

Several hundred protesters shouted slogans hostile to US policies in the Middle East and tried to get close to the yacht, guarded by masked police officers, local media footage showed.

From Barron's Jul. 17, 2026

He owned a Renoir, a Gulfstream, a helicopter, plus, of course, a yacht.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

The public official is accused of lodging without permission on two docked yachts that did not belong to her.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

He has appeared in countless videos, flaunting an ultra-luxurious lifestyle of fast cars, private jets, and yachts.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

After all, there’s typically little impact to ordinary consumers or the economy at large if prices for yachts increase.

From MarketWatch Jun. 13, 2026

Caline Basroon, a New York-based travel adviser with Protravel International, has booked multiple clients on hotel-branded yachts this summer.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

John Henry had his overalls rolled up around his knees as he stood in the water, hammering away at a bridge fashioned from the wreckage of fancy yachts.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

She may repeat the furore created when King George's mother, Denmark's radiant Alexandra, was similarly yachted to Britain to marry the future Edward VII.

From Time Magazine Archive

He has yachted from blazing Syria to arctic Spitsbergen.

From Time Magazine Archive

All last summer Queen & Daughter yachted and toured in Scandinavia.

From Time Magazine Archive

It didn't occasion any loud comments from nobility or clergy when the King yachted to Yugoslavia with Mrs. Simpson.

From Time Magazine Archive

Why, he's dined at the White House, and lunched and motored and yachted with royalties, and lectured before the D.A.R.'s themselves!

From A Woman Named Smith by Oemler, Marie Conway

The pair have been photographed yachting in St. Tropez, holding hands in London and attending the premiere of the “Legally Blonde” prequel “Elle.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 8, 2026

The mustached southerner, yachting enthusiast and philanthropist, whose empire also included sports clubs, had been suffering from the degenerative disease Lewy Body Dementia.

From Barron's May 6, 2026

While the furniture and housing industries also use old-growth teak, they have generally found it easier to substitute plantation teak than the yachting industry, he adds.

From BBC Feb. 2, 2026

We’d probably come back home, have a little dessert and watch either “The Great British Baking Show” or “Below Deck,” a drama-packed look inside the world of private yachting.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 14, 2025

Even as the last Americans were still passing Hitler, the first German athletes began to emerge from the tunnel, dressed in crisp white linen suits and sporting white yachting caps.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown




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